170.250 Lake St. Louis Police

[stlouisx50]

I picked up 170.250 mhz, I started looking it up when I heard Lake St. Louis Police come though on my other scanner. For some reason I am picking them up on 170.250 MHZ . Is it just a mirror image or is anyone else picking this up?

Stlouisx50

 

[N2JDS]

Curious, did it have the usual repeater hum that they are famous for, I have not heard many departments with as much hum at the end of a transmission as them.

 

[stlouisx50]

Actually it sounded like input to the repeater quality audio , not that crappy sound that you and I both know occurs on their freq. I usually block them out unless I am traveling through the city.

 

[ElGenio]

I'll have to check this out. I do know they had the radio tech there not too long ago.

 

[stlouisx50]

What is with their audio anyway. I can barely if at all hear their dispatcher. I have to turn the scanner way up to hear.

 

[N2JDS]

What is with their audio anyway. I can barely if at all hear their dispatcher. I have to turn the scanner way up to hear.

That's one of the things I like about my BCD996XT, it allows me to either boost or decrease volume by channel, I did that with LSL PD for my streamed feed.

 

[stlouisx50]

I too can do that with the PSR500 or the Pro-106, but then you have it loud and when the officer talk you have to turn it down. (if in public) because everyone hears it.

I will try that again I suppose, but like right now. I can hear both dispatch and the officers fine, later the dispatcher will sound like shes whispering again.

 

[ElGenio]

When I'm out there, I'm less 5000 feet from their tower. I've always found their audio understandable. When I'm in stl city I can still pick them up as I'm about 200 feet off the ground. There, I find the dispatcher can sometimes be hard to hear but the units are still understandable.

 

[stlouisx50]

Lake St. Louis's tower is 5.5-6 miles from me. They come in 3-5 bars. I can hear them crystal clear today. But if I am in the car their signal is horrible. I can pick up Wentzville about as equal and their tower is further away.

I am surprised you can pick them up in St. Louis, I will have to test where I can hear them and where I can't.

I do not know how Cottleville can get a signal from the Lake St. Louis Tower, because when ever I am in the Cottleville area you can barely receive their signal.

 

[ElGenio]

I only have 159.15 on my pro-51 so I listen to them quite a bit. With Cottleville, as soon as the unit doesn't reply to a status check they call their cell phone. Lately, it seems like the dispatcher doesn't even try to ask a second time.

I've picked up as far as Warren County from the city. It's a nice place to be, yet at the same time it's bad. I don't know who to listen to. I have the options of St. Charles co, lsl/cottlevile, Wentzville, O'fallon is sketchy, STL County, STL City(includes FBI) & airport, the ISP and the municipalities on their system, the rest of the Metro East and a bunch of factories come alive at night.